The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to a crowd in this photo.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was in Detroit (where I was born and raised) over the weekend to march for awareness about issues of great importance.
Sadly, however, the march is not getting near enough attention as much of the nation focused on Beckstock, a production led by Fox News right-wing extremist and fearmonger specialist Glenn Beck. Beck's production, a scheme to grab attention, raise money (I'm sure Goldline is happy) and increase his fame, is a disgrace to everything Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for and died for more than four decades ago. Beck's disgraceful attempts to capitalize on the works and deeds of Dr. King are perhaps overshadowed only by his stunning ignorance of what Dr. King really stood for as he rallied millions.
Beckstock, or "I Have A Scheme" as some people have called his rally in Washington D.C., grabbed all the headlines while the Rev. Jackson marched in Detroit on important issues.
Here is an excerpt from the Detroit News:
The chants of thousands of people demanding jobs filled the air downtown as UAW President Bob King and the Rev. Jesse Jackson led the crowd to Grand Circus Park.
The UAW and Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition announced the Rebuild America: Jobs Justice Peace kickoff today at the downtown park.
Jackson said the focus of the initiative is to ensure policy makers put people first when making decisions. The initiative calls for a moratorium on home foreclosures, a push for job creation and for ending armed conflicts overseas.
"Detroit and Michigan are ground zero of the urban crisis," Jackson said. "It's time to enact real change for working families and all America."
About 30 percent of Detroit is unemployed, Jackson said. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., also said Detroit was chosen as the kickoff site for the campaign because it is at the heart of the nation's economic fight.
Here are some photos from the rally led by the Rev. Jackson as posted by the Detroit Free Press.
The sensationalism of Glenn Beck, promoted by the Republican party communication's team, Fox News, sells better than a march in Detroit for jobs and other forms of economic empowerment.
3 comments:
Help me out Sandy.
I was on a business trip to Detroit about 6 weeks ago.
I drove the length of Jefferson Ave and then purchased a Black history book and drove through the "Black Bottom".
How do you rationalize in your own mind that Jesse Jackson who represents the regime that presided over Detroit as it crashed and burned yet your contempt is reserved for Glenn Beck and the Republicans? When was the last time that the GOP was even able to officially pick up dog poop in Detroit?
Here is what I don't understand about Black folks who have sold out to their ideology and race - If you attempt to apply the standard logic of "YOUR finger prints are upon the controls when the fatal crash took place" so YOU are the guilty party - doesn't seem to fit when it comes to the Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chaser - Democratic Party Loyalist.
I can bring up any story that you like regarding the travail of Black people in this once great city and you and others are more inclined to tell a story of Republican DENIAL or social justice than you are inclined to tell a story about failed policies that you voted into power.
I am not sure what you mean by the "regime that presided over Detroit as it crashed and burned" when you speak of Jesse Jackson. As a native of Detroit, I can confidently assure you that there were many factors that played out that led to the decline of Detroit (and the decline of many other major cities around the U.S.).To lay it at the feet of Jesse Jackson, even partially, seems nothing short of absurd.
If the GOP wanted to pick up dog poop in Detroit I highly doubt anyone would stop them. Many conservatives would rather sit back and take shots at Detroit from afar than be a part of solutions. Many of these conservatives who badmouth Detroit are all too willing to come downtown to watch the Red Wings play in Joe Louis Arena or the Lions play in Ford Field, but that is the extent to which a large number of them will work with Detroit.
Many times that which is being chased is being chased because it is in the wrong.
I recognize that there are many factors that have led Detroit to the position it is in now. No amount of the pointless demonizing social justice or illogical attacking of progressives will do much to positively confront the issues that trouble us all.
Great to see Rev. Jackson continuing to do good work in communities.
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